Kubernetes 1.21 Release Information
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
Kubernetes 1.21 : Power to the Community
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (join kubernetes-sig-release@ to receive meeting invites)
- v1.21 Release Calendar
- Contact: #sig-release on slack, kubernetes-release-team@ on e-mail
- Internal Contact Info (accessible only to members of kubernetes-release-team@)
Tracking docs
- Enhancements Tracking Sheet
- Bug Triage Tracking Sheet: TODO
- CI Signal Report: TODO
- Retrospective Document
- kubernetes/sig-release v1.21 milestone
Guides
TL;DR
The 1.21 release cycle is proposed as follows:
- Monday, January 11th: Week 1 - Release cycle begins
- Tuesday, February 9th: Week 5 - Enhancements Freeze
- Tuesday, March 9th: Week 9 - Code Freeze
- Wednesday, March 24: Week 11 - Test Freeze
- Wednesday, March 31st: Week 12 - Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Thursday, April 8th: Week 13 - Kubernetes v1.21.0 released
- Thursday, April 15th: Week 14 - Release Retrospective
Timeline
| What | Who | When | WEEK | CI SIGNAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Mon January 11 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Tue January 12 | week 1 | |
| 1.21.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager (@puerco) | Wed January 13 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Thurs January 14 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday January 15 | week 1 | |
| 1.21.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager (@sethmccombs) | Tue January 26 | week 3 | |
| Begin Enhancements Freeze (EOD PST) | Enhancements Lead | Tue February 9th | week 5 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.21.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager (@ameukam) | Tue February 9 | week 5 | |
| 1.21.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager (@onlydole) | Tue February 23 | week 7 | |
| Begin Burndown (MWF meetings) | Lead | Mon March 1 | week 8 | 1.21-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Mon March 1 | week 8 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Mon March 1 | week 8 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | Mon March 1 | week 8 | |
| 1.21.0-beta.1 released | Branch Manager (@mkorbi) | Tue March 9 | week 9 | |
| Begin Code Freeze (EOD PST) | Branch Manager | Tue March 9 | week 9 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily | Lead | Mon March 15 | week 10 | |
| Docs deadline - Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Tue March 16 | week 10 | |
| Docs deadline - PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Wed March 24 | week 11 | |
| Test Freeze (EOD PST) | Branch Manager | Wed March 24 | week 11 | |
| 1.21.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager (@puerco) | Thu March 25 | week 11 | |
| release-1.21 branch created | Branch Manager | Thu March 25 | week 11 | |
| release-1.21 jobs created | Branch Manager | Thu March 25 | week 11 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Thu March 25 | week 11 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | Thu March 25 | week 11 | |
| Docs complete - All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Wed March 31 | week 12 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Wed March 31 | week 12 | |
Release Notes complete - reviewed & merged to k/sig-release | Release Notes Lead | Mon April 5 | week 13 | |
| v1.21.0 released | Branch Manager (@puerco) | Thu April 8 | week 13 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Thu April 8 | week 13 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Thu April 8 | week 13 | |
| Release retrospective | Community | Thu April 15 | Week 14 |
Phases
Please refer to the release phases document.
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